The focus I have is the third video You’ve always had the power to go back. I think that because I know I have the ability to go back into my mind and take memories out. But I don’t want to that’s because I know it will put me in a dangerous place. My narratives allow me to travel into my brain by remembering the night my dog passed away. It was a rough night for my family and I. At the same time, it gives me a reason to cope and talk about my dog and what she means to my family. It also gives me an idea to talk about her and how great she was.
While this story allows me to experiences the emotions I felt on that day, the sadness the angry, the wondering why now. While the grief is still there, it always will be. The rest of the emotions aren’t. I’ve come to accept my dog’s death as a part of life. This story allows me to meet the high stakes because we thought she wasn’t going to die. We knew something had happened, but we all didn’t know she was going to die. It is because of that I can write about the high stakes, or I can talk about the car ride, and how I had to carry her into the car and out of the car into the nurse’s hands. This story re-examines the power in storytelling by being emotional. If you have lost a loved one or a pet, you will understand my story and what it meant to my family and I. Life events shape who we are. What we experience in life helps us develop into what we are. You don’t know how to handle a death without suffering it multiple times. You don’t know how to treat a personal problem unless you have experienced it. In the end, it comes down to experience; that’s what shapes our life. Even the little things in life, like driving. If you haven’t gotten your license, you haven’t felt what its like to be free and realizing hey, I can go where ever I want to. Or if you haven’t broken a bone, you don't know how to deal with that or how to compromise what happened. My last example would be sports if you haven’t played games or experienced what its like to cheer for a sports team. You won’t understand it. You won’t follow the joy after a win or a championship or sadness of losing a big game or losing against a rival. In the end, it comes down to experience and here is why. This is also what my narrative is about and how it shaped me.
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In Hills like white elephants we see the two characters making an important decision in their life, and just like them we had been facing our own important decisions
Ever since my dog Niity passed away in June, the talk has always been are we getting a dog? “Well we like enjoying our freedom” My mom would say “I don’t want to walk the dog in the cold” My dad would say And in truth we all were enjoying our freedom, we liked the fact that we could come home and not have a dog to take out or a dog to walk. But in all of our hearts we were missing four-legged friend. My mom and I would talk about Niitty all the time and how we missed her. “You know coming home first and not having someone to great you feel so weird” “I know it feels so odd, not coming home to someone” My mom said Talks like that would go on and on, from September to December, and as my mom said “We have to wait for dad, remember he wasn’t here when Niity passed, we need to give him time” Niity passed suddenly when my dad was out of town on a business trip, so it was harder for him than us. It even got to the point in November that my mom and I were talking about dog names “How about Kimo? For Kimo Timomen, former Philadelphia flyer?” “Kimmos a good name,” My mom sad To test the name, I said “Come here Kimmo, Com here!” “That has a great ring to it” “I agree “said my mom “How about pebbles’ said “Pebbles is a good name” My mom responded. After that the conversation died, but something had changed in my mom she said “I really want a dog know, there is something missing in our life, but we have to wait for your father.” “I know mom we have to wait” It wasn’t until a few weeks ago my dad finally said to my mom “I’m ready to get a dog” This was relayed to me when I woke up on Sunday “Chris” My mom said “Dad said he’s ready to get a dog.” “Wait what, where did this come from, I hope I didn’t force you” “No, you didn’t force me to make the decisions, Chris its time.”, So from there we began looking and have found a shelter that we like. And right now, we have to wait for the application and interview process to be completed from there we can pick a new dog. We all miss Niity she was a great dog, but it is time for a new four-legged friend. On September sixteenth twenty sixteen I saw the greatest concert in my life. Bruce Springsteen and the legendry E Street band at Citizens bank park. Bruce came out at eight thirty sharp and started off with NYC Serenade, a song off his second album.From there Bruce and the band kicked it up a third gear playing half of Greeting of Asbury Park and the wild the innocent and the E street Shuffle. After ten songs form those albums, he then pulled a sign out from the crowed called the Fever, which is a song that I just discovered that summer.
From there Bruce played one of my dad’s favorite No surrender. I immediately grabbed my dad and started to hug him and jump on him like a two-year-old. We ended up singing side by side like we were on stage together. Bruce played another fourteen songs ending with Badlands one of his concert staples. At the end of the song even when the band stop playing the crowd kept carrying the tune which was something I will never forget. After that Bruce started the encore, which started with Streets of Philadelphia a tour debut, but I was more excited about what song came next. At the end of Streets of Philadelphia, I saw Soozie Tyrel, Bruce’s violinist pick up her violin and play the opening line to Jungle land. A nine-minute ballad about the Magic Rat, and his night out on the town. If you’ve ever seen a Bruce show or are a fan of his music, this is the song you want to here live. I lost my voice during Junglenad from screaming so loud and hard. After that they played Born to Run, Dancing in the Dark, Tenth Avenue Freeze out, Shout, and Bobby Jean. During Shout Bruce was saying “Did we break the record?” The record being for his longest show in United States history and yes, he did. Bruce Played for four hours and four minutes, and I stood for all of it. The show started at eight thirty and ended at one thirty in the morning, it was the greatest night of my life. I’m glad I was able to experience with my dad, and this is why this event is so special to me. |
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